>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 7/4/00, 1:22:04 PM, Chris Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding [Zope-PTK] Roles, Groups, Security and Group Membership: > Monty Taylor wrote: > > Am I making any sense at all? Does anyone see either a need for doing > > this or a way to do it? If it requires changes to PTK core, would anyone > > be interested in those, or should I throw them in my pile of dirty little > > secrets that no one should really know exist? > You're making perfect sense and I think it's a Zope problem partly, and > also a PTK problem. Good point. I think as ZEO becomes more prevelant and Zope wants to compete in the realm of big systems, group based interaction could serve to iron some things out. > The Zope problem is that Zope security has no idea about Groups. > As in Users/Members exist > There may have roles > They may also be members of Groups. > Groups may also be members of Groups. > Groups may also have roles associated with THEM. > Other major security systems I can think of (LDAP, Unix, NT, Notes) all > have this concept but Zope does not :( > Should this part of the discussion be moved to zope-dev? Probably so. I've forwarded the original email there and I'm sending this one to zope-dev. Any comments from the zope-dev world? Monty _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
